I got on my bike started pedaling as fast as I could. I was supposed to meet the losers in town at 1, but it was now 1:15 because I had overslept and had very limited time to get reddie.

when I finally got into town, I spotted richie on the street playing some random tuba. classic richie.

''what the fuck?'' I heard him say as a guy took the tuba away from him.

''hey! sorry i'm late!'' I yelled to the rest of the group as I came closer.

''hey'' richie said as he snaked an arm around my waist.

''what's going on? what are they talking about?'' I asked.

''what they always talk about'' richie said and walked up to eddie and took the ice cream out of his hand.

''eddie corcoran. they said they found his hand all chewed up near the sandpipe'' stanley said.

''he asked to borrow a pencil once.'' ben said.

bill lifted up eddie's missing poster to find betty ripsoms right under it.

''i-i-it's like she's b-been forgotten just b-because corcoran's m-missing.'' bill said.

''is it ever gonna end?'' stanley asked.

''i actually think it will end. for a little while at least.'' ben said.

''what do you mean?'' bev asks.

''so I was going through all of my derry research and I charted out the big events'' ben said. ''the ironwork explosion in 1908, the bradley gang in 35, and the black spot in 62. and now kids being... I realised this sort of stuff seems to happen every-''

''27 years'' bill said.

we all went to some park and sat down at a bench.

''okay so let me get this straight'', eddie says.

''it comes out from whenever, eats kids and then goes into hibernation?''

''maybe it's like one of those bugs, what do you call them.. cicadas! they come out every 17 years.'' stanley says.

''my grandfathers thinks that this town is cursed. he says that all the bad things that happen in this town are because of one thing. an evil thing that lives on the people in derry.'' mike says.

''but it can't be one thing, we all saw something different.'' stanley says.

'maybe it knows what we're scared of, and that's what we see.'' mike says.

''i-i saw a leper. he was like a walking infection'' eddie said.

''but you didn't. because this isn't real. none of this is. not eddie's leper, not bill seeing georgie, or the woman I keep seeing.'' stanley said.

''is she hot?'' richie asked and I gave him a dirty look.

''no richie! she's not hot! her face is all messed up..'' stanley said with a panicked tone. ''none of this makes sense. it like a bad dream.''

''I think I know the difference between real life and a dream.'' mike said. ''you know the burned down house on harris avenue? I was inside when it burned down. my mom and dad were trapped in the room over me. they tried to get out, but it was too hot. when the firemen found them, the skin on their hands had melted to their bones. we're all afraid of something.''

''got that right.'' richie said.

''why rich? what are you afraid of?'' eddie asked.

''clowns.'' richie quickly said.

''what about you y/n?'' stanley asked me.

''uh, getting raped, or kidnapped.'' I said. (ok I tried to pick a fear that is pretty common lol)

I shivered of the thought.

ok I have a bunch of shit to say

1. hellooo!!! :3 i updated... lol

2. calpurnia fucking broke up

i cried my eyes out and i wanna kill myself

their music meant so much to me and im so sad even though i respect their choice

3. the only thing keeping me alive at the moment is the fact that i have ballet tomorrow wahoo